The Public Eye, Fall 2024

In planning this Fall 2024 issue of The Public Eye, we couldn’t predict the election’s outcome, but we knew the authoritarian Right wouldn’t be going away. That’s why this issue departs from our usual format to feature short articles by PRA staff and comrades on strategies for resisting right-wing authoritarianism and fascism. 

We begin with PRA’s election statement, which reflects on the conditions we face and reminds us that opposing authoritarian forces “requires us to be open to different strategies.”

In an excerpt from Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, Matthew N. Lyons and Xtn Alexander outline a radical framework that can “inform sharper and more effective strategies for organizing for human liberation.”

The leaders of four movement organizations speak with Cloee Cooper on how movement infrastructure can sustain us, and the unique insights that many Black and immigrant communities have in resisting authoritarian regimes. 

How can we build community safety without relying on racist policing or the security state? Naomi Washington-Leapheart speaks with Scot Nakagawa and Hardy Merriman about Harnessing Our Power to End Political Violence (HOPE-PV), a new guide and training project; and Ben Lorber and Shane Burley report on how activists are fighting antisemitism with intersectional solidarity in an article drawn from their book, Safety Through Solidarity.

As far-right forces behind the next administration continue to wage campaigns against public schools, True North Research’s Alyssa Bowen interviews Jennifer C. Berkshire about The Education Wars, a citizen’s guide for defending public education. 

In her review of Commune or Nothing!, Hialy Gutierrez considers what lessons Venezuela’s communal movement can offer to U.S. Leftists. And to mark the return of Reports in Review, Habiba Farh reviews Reverberations of October 7, Palestine Legal’s report on anti-Palestinian state repression. 

Online, editor Jack Gieseking speaks with the authors of The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights. And in The Art of Activism, cover artist Dio Cramer speaks with PRA about the concept behind their artwork and how organizing and nature inspire their artistic practice. 

We must fight until we’re all free, because “we will all rise or fall together,” as PRA said in a 2018 statement. As we band together to survive the next few years, The Public Eye will continue to publish the strategic analysis that frontline organizers and movements need to fight the authoritarian Right, defend one another, and rise together.